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Nature's Havens on the Danube DANUBE HAVENS NATURE’S NATURE’S HAVENS DONAU DUNAJDUNAV Дунав DUNA ON THE DANUBE Dunărea PROTECTED AREAS The only constant in a riverine FROM SOURCE TO DELTA ecosystem is change. Rising and ON THE DANUBE falling water levels and the permanent shift of sand and gravel are characteristic of natural rivers, allowing the emergence of steep banks and islands of sand and gravel which come and go. Home to a variety of native flora and fauna, these vital ecosys- tems have been brought to the brink of extinction across Europe by river regulation through PROTECTED AREAS FROM SOURCE TO DELTA building levees, straightening bends and dredging channels. DANUBEPARKS puts the protection of river dynamics and free migration between different sections and habitats at the heart of its work, as the only way to ensure the long-term preservation of biodiversity and vital riverine environments. ISBN978-6 15-5241-13-0 DANUBEPARKS This publication has been produced by the projectDANUBEPARKS STEP 2.0 approved in the framework of South East Europe Transnational Cooperation 9 786155 241130 Programme and funded by the European Union DANUBEPARKS 1 Donauauwald Neuburg-Ingolstadt 2 Donau-Auen National Park 3 Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape Area 4 Szigetköz Landscape Protection Area 5 Duna-Ipoly National Park 6 Duna-Dráva National Park 7 Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve 8 Kopački rit Nature Park 9 Lonjsko Polje Nature Park 10 Djerdap National Park 11 Persina Nature Park 12 Rusenski Lom Nature Park 13 Kalimok-Brushlen Protected Site 14 Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve DANUBEPARKS NATURE’S HAVENS ON THE DANUBE PROTECTED AREAS FROM SOURCE TO DELTA NATURE’S HAVENS ON THE DANUBE PROTECTED AREAS FROM SOURCE TO DELTA Editor András Sevcsik Photographers Zsolt Kudich and Réka Zsirmon This book was produced through the collaboration of staff and helpers of the DANUBEPARKS Network member organisations: Donauauwald Neuburg-Ingolstadt Contents Veronika Ruisinger, Lukas Kupfer, Thomas Schneider, Jonas Liegl, Siegfried Geißler Donau-Auen National Park Erika Dorn, Magdalena Wagner, Ursula Grabner, Georg Frank, Josef Mühlbacher, Josef Steiner Foreword.......................................................................................................................6 Regional Association for Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development (BROZ) Pavol Surovec, Miroslava Rakovská, Andrej Devečka, Matúš Kúdela, Peter Rác, The DANUBEPARKS Network...........................................................................................7 Jozef Mátyás, Tomáš Kušík Fertő-Hanság National Park Directorate Donauauwald Neuburg-Ingolstadt..................................................................................8 Attila Fersch, Csaba Szabó, Zoltán Fűzfa Duna-Ipoly National Park Directorate Donau-Auen National Park..........................................................................................14 Annamária Csóka, Réka Előd, Ferenc Halász, Pál Kézdy, Gyula Kiss, András Sevcsik, Balázs Tóth, Zsuzsanna Tóth Duna-Dráva National Park Directorate Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape Area.......................................................................20 Éva Horváth, Attila Komlós, Barnabás Felső, Balázs Trócsányi, Tibor Parrag, Ervin Mezei, Endre Sztellik, Zoltán Omacht Public Enterprise “Vojvodinašume” Szigetköz Landscape Protection Area............................................................................26 Radmila Sakic, Milan Rajić Duna-Ipoly National Park............................................................................................. Kopacki rit Nature Park 32 Vlatko Rožac, Dorja Bučević, Renata Forjan, Boris Bolšec Duna-Dráva National Park........................................................................................... Lonjsko Polje Nature Park 38 Valerija Hima, Zlatko Sučić, Nada Đilas, Nikša Ravlić Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve....................................................................44 Djerdap National Park Dragana Milojkovic, Jelena Bujdic Kreckovic, Zoran Milovanovic, Dragan Drndarevic and Marija Milenkovic-Srbulovic Kopački rit Nature Park................................................................................................50 Persina Nature Park Daniela Karakasheva, Radoslava Dzhantova Lonjsko polje Nature Park............................................................................................56 Rusenski Lom Nature Park Djerdap National Park................................................................................................. Emiliya Petkova, Tsonka Hristova 62 Kalimok-Brushlen Protected Site Persina Nature Park.................................................................................................... Emiliya Petkova, Yordan Kutsarov, Georgi Georgiev, Kameliya Zlatanova, Radka Ivanova, 68 Personal story: Stoyanka Pavlova Rusenski Lom Nature Park...........................................................................................74 Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve Authority Gabriela Morozov, Alina Codreanu, Gabriela Cretu, Grigore Baboianu, Liliana Ivancenco Kalimok-Brushlen Protected Site..................................................................................80 Photographers: Zsolt Kudich and Réka Zsirmon www.kudich-zsirmon.com Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve.................................................................................86 Christoph Roland: Little-Ringed Plover Copy editor: Alan Campbell Illustrations: Batmyagmar Purevjav About the photographers............................................................................................92 Design and prepress: Zsolt Dékány ISBN 978-615-5241-13-0 Editor: András Sevcsik Executive publisher: Duna-Ipoly National Park Directorate 1121 Budapest, Költő utca 21. Prepared for printing by Alexandra Könyvesház Kft. 1075 Budapest, Károly körút 3/C www.alexandrakiado.hu, www.alexandra.hu Cover photograph: Donau-Auen National Park, Danube Map insert: Le cours du Danube depuis sa source iusqu’a ses embouchures: presenté a Monseigneur le Dauphin Dressé sur les memoires les plus nouveaux du P. Coronelli et autres, par le Sr. Sanson. (The River Danube from Source to Mouth by S. Sanson, based on the latest observations by P. Coroneli et al (1696)) Duna Museum, Esztergom www.dunamuzeum.hu This publication has been produced by the project Danubeparks STEP 2.0 approved in the frame- work of South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme and funded by the European Union Foreword The DANUBEPARKS Network The Danube basin has a more “international” character than any other great river. Strung The foundations for transnational cooperation concerning the protected areas along the Danube along the river are four national capitals, several other large cities and hundreds of towns and were laid in 2007, and DANUBEPARKS – the Danube River Network of Protected Areas – was villages. The Danube passes through land of all kinds of agricultural and industrial uses, and officially founded with the signing of the Declaration of Vienna in 2009. Since then, much has through human habitation of widely varying levels of development. The impact of this human been achieved. activity, in terms of water quality, changes in the landscape, and loss of biodiversity, has been a matter of serious concern since the 1980s. The work on two ETC-SEE projects has engendered robust and amicable cooperation. The mutual exchange of experience and know-how has led to coordinated strategies for many Long stretches of the Danube began to lose their natural character in the middle of the nature conservation issues. nineteenth century through large-scale river regulation works mostly aimed at flood control. Later, particularly in Germany and Austria, the construction of hydroelectric power plants DANUBEPARKS has become a platform for lively cooperation among the protected areas along on the river accelerated the transformation of the original riverbed and floodplain. The loss the river, and interactions have expanded horizons at local level. Danube-wide strategies are of longitudinal continuity, lateral connectivity and other hydromorphological alterations, being drafted, and several specific protective measures have already been implemented. together with water quality deterioration, led to a dramatic change in riverine biota. River DANUBEPARKS has also become a widely recognized nature conservation network. International regulation activity to improve navigation and flood control is still in progress in many Danubian bodies such as the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) countries. and the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) are among its permanent partners. International cooperation in addressing water quality problems took great steps forward The growth of DANUBEPARKS itself is proof of its success. Founded in 2007 with eight members through the Bucharest Declaration of 1985 and the UNECE Ware Convention and Helsinki in five countries, it now embraces 20 conservation areas in nine countries, all working together Treaty of 1992. These paved the way for cooperation among the Danube basin countries, to protect the precious natural heritage of the Danube. formalised in the Danube River Protection Convention signed in Sofia in 1994. Present activities are governed by the EU Water Framework Directive of December 2000. In future, DANUBEPARKS intends to act as the combined voice of the Danube Protected Areas, vigorously promoting their shared agenda in the political arena and developing as a Large sections
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